As I’ve been reading more and more into the whole gender thing that seems to have society in its psychotic grip, I get more and more disturbed.
Teaching kids that it’s not right to hate someone, or harass someone, or make fun of someone, or fear someone, purely because they’re different is a good, positive message.
Teaching kids to question their gender, their sexuality, and how to pleasure themselves is a quite different thing altogether that has nothing to do with tolerance, or acceptance, or being kind and decent. It’s the deliberate promotion of a particular worldview that emphasizes sex and sexual matters.
Kids have one shot, one shot, at having a precious period of innocence in their lives. It’s our job as adults to protect kids from adult things so they can explore and play and develop in that innocence. They don’t get to do it over again. The damage to innocence, once done, cannot be reversed.
We shouldn’t be giving puberty blockers to kids, and we shouldn’t be giving them innocence blockers. Neither are wholly reversible.
I still remember the day I took my daughters out for the day. We’d been to the beach, done some fun stuff, and had finished up the cakes and milkshakes in the café. I told them they could have a look round the giftshop and pick something under 5 pounds. Off they went.
The youngest, just out of that toddler stage, picked, for some inexplicable reason, a bar of soap shaped like an animal. Out of all the things she could have picked this was what she wanted. OK, it is what it is, I thought. She was insistent that she wanted to pay for it herself, so I gave her the cash and accompanied her to the till.
The cashier was really nice and said “I’ll just pop him in this paper bag and then he won’t get sticky, will he?”
“What’s a sticky willy?”, piped up my daughter, in total innocence.
For those of you who don’t know, “willy” in the UK is a non-vulgar euphemism for penis.
Stonewall, who have been promoting gender ideology to teachers of schoolkids, would rather she questioned whether she should have been born with a willy. This is so, so wrong, on so many levels.
Teaching kids about these sexual matters is not “inclusion”, it’s the exclusion of the innocence we should be preserving.
Tolerance and compassion for those who may struggle with their sexuality or their body image or their thoughts about whether they’re a boy or a girl (or a non binary pangendered queer asexual turnip or a swede) is one thing. The promotion of these things is another matter entirely.
And these things are being promoted. Festooning the classroom with pride flags, genderbread diagrams, and pronoun charts is not about inclusivity at all - it’s an excessive promotion of these things. Even the language used gives it away. People say they celebrate pride month.
Why, in particular, should I celebrate? What am I celebrating? Am I celebrating that some people have sex with people of the same sex? There’s nothing wrong with that, of course - and more power to your elbow or whatever - but why is it something I should celebrate? I don’t get it.
And, of course, we’re all aware of the rather gross display of sexual fetishes and kinks at these marches and parades. One imagines that this, too, is something I am supposed to celebrate? I’m not overly bothered by kinks and fetishes, you do you, as they say - but when it’s in front of kids, then it becomes a serious problem.
There is a dark and dangerous undercurrent to all of this promotion of sex, sexuality and gender confusion when it comes to kids - it’s a kind of grooming, a way of conditioning them to face issues that are wildly inappropriate for their age. Most adults don’t understand this stuff, I certainly don’t (because it doesn’t make coherent, logical sense) and I’d bet my house on kids not understanding it either.
We’re not giving them more genders to choose from. We’re giving them more neuroses to choose from.
It’s easy to see this is all part and parcel of some social contagion - both the ideology and the rise of young people identifying as one of the weird-shit genders. One thing I’ve recently discovered, for example, is a rise in young people claiming to have some kind of multiple personalities. They talk about their ‘others’ and things like ‘age-sliding’ (this is when one of their ‘others’ is a different age and so they ‘slide’ into a personality of a different age). It’s all fucking nonsensical, of course, but it seems to be yet another trend that’s taking hold.
Play football, climb a tree, ride a bike, please, kids, stop fucking up your heads with crap on the internet. It’s probably good advice for us all.
The dangerous thing here is that by normalizing the promotion of sexual matters to kids, we’re going to end up normalizing sexual activity in kids - and that’s a road we definitely shouldn’t be going down. We’re not there yet, but there are lots of warning signs already. Pay heed to them very carefully.
Great essay. Sexually abusing children is one of the greatest evils in the world. Altered sexuality, destroyed trust, and a lifetime of debilitating paranoia are the fruits of this offense.
My older sister fondly recalls how our childhood neighbor would see her playing in the yard and invite her into his home to treat her with strawberry soda and a cookie. Absolutely nothing going on except an elderly man being kind to a child. That is gone forever now.
The head-scratching part of this all is that parents are extremely vigilant in guarding against actions like my former neighbor's, but they deliver their children to the (painted fingernail) clutches of bearded men squeezed into sequined gowns and sky-high stilettos. I've read stories that in some of these Drag Queen Story Hours, parents are ushered from the room so the children can have some "alone time" with the perverts...er, I mean, performers. In at least one case of this "alone time" that I've come across, the drag queen lied down on the floor and the children were instructed to get on top of him and wiggle their bodies against his.
Truly, Klaus' talk of a Great Reset has offered us an opportunity for one of our own to purge this perversion from our diseased societies.
"The dangerous thing here is that by normalizing the promotion of sexual matters to kids, we’re going to end up normalizing sexual activity in kids - and that’s a road we definitely shouldn’t be going down."
Too late. We've been doing that for *decades* already. But only the fundie Christians noticed because it was hetero activity being promoted. And because it was a fundie cause, everybody was allowed to make fun of and dismiss it. The fundies were right, though. Sexual activity was completely normalized down to age 13 no later than 2006. That was the last time I had any reason to know about what the teenagers were up to, but from what I've heard... "progress" continues apace.
Sorry, but if you're only seeing it *now* and didn't see it coming from fifty miles off when the nice teacher ladies were insisting on sex-positive sex-ed and contraceptive how-to from what? Fifth grade? Third? Well... what did you *think* would happen? I mean, really? We're talking about progressives here. There's no end goal, no backstops. Everything they work for sounds perfectly reasonable until you realize it never, ever STOPS there. You never reach a point where "OK, we're good now, this is enough"-- "progress" means always moving.... the goalposts. I know, nobody likes the fundies, they're frumpy and don't like fun (no I was never one, but I grew up around them, and actually most of them are nice people). But they always understood the true nature of that beast, and recognized it as a threat to them and their children.
I spent my thirteenth year babysitting, hanging out at the library, and riding my bike around the neighborhood. Every one of my nieces spent it stressing about condoms, the pill, and pregnancy scares, and developing emotional schisms with their dads, as they transferred their affections to a string of boyfriends, and dad tried to protect them. In my later teen years, I'd go veg out at my sister's house and watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the evenings, while plotting how to finish high school in 3 years because high school sucks. My nieces? One of them managed to graduate high school and go to college, but still thinks she's gonna make a career out of posting sexy fashion photos on the internet. One flunked out and is back living with mom. The other is currently working on flunking out and has declared herself "pansexual" because that's how you fit in with the cool kids these days. But hey, at least they're sex-positive, right? I mean, clearly the worst possible outcome would be for kids to feel weird about their developing bodies and reticent about sex. God forbid anyone ever experience feelings of guilt about sexuality, or worse, *have hangups* about it. That'd be just awful. Better to have everyone from 13 up screwing like bunnies (safely, of course), and make the kids who abstain feel like freaks. What could possibly go wrong?
When I was 13, having sex was still edgy, and probably meant you'd been abused at home. Other girls considered that too young and reacted with revulsion and concern. That is definitely not the case now. 13 is normal, so where's the edge now? 11?